Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [art] [adj] time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But because mistakes are expensive and we have to live with them for a long time we tend to play safe and go for rather bland schemes . |
| 2 | I 'd like you to tell me about the first time you were really aware of these symptoms , then the worst episode you can remember , and then the last … . |
| 3 | I was wondering how on earth I should endure these hunting days , especially when they all came back and crowed over me about the jolly time they 'd had , and then I thought , by jove , there 's Alexandra Abbott and she does n't hunt and she made me laugh more than anyone has for years . |
| 4 | He tells me of the only time he has seen his mother drink ; her infant grandchild vomited on her coat , and she spouted a fine , volatile performance , screaming Christ Almighty the cross a woman has to bear , taking the Lord 's name in vain for the very first time . |
| 5 | SEEING THE ARTICLE on the ‘ 109 in the July issue of FlyPast reminded me of the first time I saw it . |
| 6 | A terrible knowledge had been swelling slowly in the Padre 's mind , like a sweet , poisonous fruit , which for a long time he had not dared to taste . |
| 7 | By August 1991 W. 's condition had deteriorated to the point at which for a short time she had to be fed by nasogastric tube and have her arms encased in plaster . |
| 8 | She had turned on him again that remarkable glance in which for the first time he had detected to his discomfiture a brief flash of intelligence and of calculation . |
| 9 | Had Andrewes remained in Cambridge , his reputation would probably have been unblemished but he would have lacked the stimulus to write the magnificent sermons which he preached at Court ; and he would not willingly have engaged in the controversial writing in which for the first time he set out the Anglican Church 's position in terms which European scholars could respect ; above all his Preces , even had they been written , would not have contained the breadth of experience , and the depth of feeling , based on that experience , which made them treasures of the Church . |
| 10 | No one could but admire the fortitude with which he bore his last painful illness and the way in which at the same time he stuck to his constituency work which he performed with great conscientiousness . |
| 11 | Did n't Celia tell you about the awful time she had giving birth to Donna ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Did n't you guess , my beautiful idiot , that I 've been crazy about you from the first time I saw you standing outside your hotel bedroom in France ? ’ |
| 13 | met him for the first time I think and erm |
| 14 | Oh , poor Travis , Leith thought , her sympathies going out to him for the terrible time he was having . |
| 15 | It reminded her of the first time she 'd seen him . |
| 16 | With Keith , I fell head over heels in love with him from the first time we met , and I 'd only been going out with him two weeks and he asked me to get engaged . |
| 17 | I mean they ca n't , they ca n't possibly do everything for everybody at the right time I mean |
| 18 | so he sold it in a wrong time he could have , he could have hold on to it another few months and got a lot of money for it |
| 19 | Well I saw it in the last time it was in here on Central and it was n't , it did n't come on ! |
| 20 | But nobody , how long is it since the last time we showed them in ? |
| 21 | If I do n't pass it at the third time I 'm just gon na give up cos I 'm not failing more |
| 22 | So before we separated he gave me a working title for a song , and told me he wanted me to finish it by the next time he saw me . |
| 23 | In the closing days of that year she could only hope and pray that whoever was responsible for Liza 's unnatural behaviour would have helped to improve it by the next time she saw her . |
| 24 | We usually got one back saying they 'd been accepted and they 'd deal with them at a certain time you know . |
| 25 | I said if yo if you think you know that you might be able to build a relationship I said then er you know , tell her so I said and do n't try and run the both of them at the same time I said |